Word: knee-deep
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...Carter of Cambridge, Mass, brooded on the "premonition" which had kept her off the Mohawk and Morro Castle, warned her against the Dixie. A North Bergen, N. J. man passed the time writing his experiences for the New York Times. Sewage and sea water had by this time risen knee-deep in the staterooms. When it had spread its stench and filth into the public rooms, a band of women got down on their knees, tried to scrub the floors. Passenger hero turned out to be Henry Treger. National Broadcasting Co. engineer, who climbed the stack to help...
...Line steamship Lexington (New York-Providence) sighted the freighter Jane Christenson dead ahead, shrilled a warning. Before the Lexington could get out from under the freighter knifed her amidships, nearly broke her in half. While the ship's orchestra played "Somebody Stole My Gal," passengers waded across decks knee-deep in water. Tooting furiously, harbor tugs bustled to the Lexington's side, took off passengers & crew almost before they knew it. The Lexington sank in ten minutes, took four seamen with...
...handsome, grey-haired American who is staying at the Savoy Hotel, London, with his smart wife and charming daughter?well, his foundations may easily be knee-deep in the mire of the underworld. What is more, he may be only vaguely aware that this really matters. . . . King Crime is enthroned, and his influence extends over the whole vast country, but checking very abruptly at the Canadian border and not flowing over even into Mexico. ... A criminal army of 1,000,000 persons is operating in the United States and 25,000 gangsters alone have died by gunfire since Prohibition came...
...obscene, the show is always a carnival for propagandists with a message. Chief of these exhibits last week was a huge cartoon, painted on muslin by twelve members of the John Reed Club, an organization of communistically inclined writers & artists. Entitled Washington Market it showed a pudgy Herbert Hoover knee-deep in a junk wagon labelled U. S. A. Prominent was a large dead fish, labelled FISH (meaning Red-hunting Congressman Hamilton Fish of New York). Temporarily tacked to Mr. Hoover's left hand was a loose piece of paper marked BONUS VETO. Explained a grey-bearded John Reed...
...years ago she gave up tragic, wearing parts, but later rallied to play Ibsen's Ghosts. She wears no real furs or feathers, eats no flesh. In 1925 she said: "Society is so organized as to make it seem necessary for thousands of shouting, cursing men to stand knee-deep in blood, dealing ferocious blows right and left upon millions of shrieking animals in order that we may be fed. . . . The steel trap has no place in anything even remotely describing itself as civilization and to abolish it we shall rely upon the modern woman...